Carrie GaxiolaGreat Basin College Library

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Digital Collections & Electronic Resources for…

Nevada and Beyond!

Objectives:

To Learn about : Index (specific to your assignment; museum quart) Guides GBC Library Online & in person Online digital Nevada collections Library of Congress classification

THE INDEX ;)http://museumelko.org/

Starting out… Organize thought. You may need pull out the info!

What are you telling?

Broader terms Specific terms

Other Index

My grandpa & his friends

Team of sheepherders, Basque culture

(names?) (What else about grandpa and his friends?)hangouts, environment, events that affected them

Basques Anacabe’s Store: The First Fifty Years....86-4 (Fall 1986) Basque Ranching Culture in the Great Basin....2010-3&4. Basque Sheepherders....94-4

Travel Elko, Ely, Winnemucca

Bus Duncan’s (Carl) Café and Greyhound Bus Stop Elko 50 Years Ago: Photographs Taken by Joe Tognoni....2000-3

Military Service

Army, Spanish American War

Volunteer Group from Elko

(Experiences?) Army Elko Volunteers in the Spanish-American War....Vol. 4, No. 4 (Spring 1974)

Guides

Use as: FINDING AIDS ; they will recommend collections / various resources: books, websites, journals, databases, etc…

Use as: BRAINSTORM IDEAS TOOL TIP! ALWAYS look for places to “jump off” to; HARVEST new ideas – links

usually listed on right side of the main websites of the collection

Example of Guides:

Nevada Day Research http://guides.library.unlv.edu/c.php?g=333168&p=2241700

WNC Nevada Historyhttp://libguides.wnc.edu/nevadahistory

GBC Library

http://www.gbcnv.edu/library/ Databases (NOT websites! These cost!) Search tips Evaluate material guides Citations How to get started on research (learn background, field language used, etc…) And more!

Digital Collections

UNLV Libraries: https://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/collections Oral history: https://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/ohrc/projects Digital coll: http://digital.library.unlv.edu/

Always look for “About” or “Finding Aids” SAVES TIME!(always EVALUATE the information against your need)

UNR https://knowledgecenter.unr.edu/digital_collections/ State Library: http://nsla.nv.gov/Archives/Nevada_State_Archives/

http://omeka.library.unlv.edu/omeka/collections

LOC http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/states/nevada/ Organizations http://westernwaters.org/collections

Academic Libraries LOC (Library of Congress)

SUBJECT based Facilitates serendipity So always look around

NOT Dewey Decimal See your handout

Image Credit Library of Congress

GBC Library has labeled our shelves to encourage browsing

Keywords to be on the lookout for!

Repository Manuscripts Digital Library Digital CollectionsAlso, other helpful places! Google Books Archive.org Census.gov

Be careful out there!

Play around! Research in not linear process

Takes practice PATIENCE Experience to develop SKILL

EVALUATE!

LOGIN INFO IS ON THE BOARD, PLEASE TAKE A GANDER AT ONE OF THE RECOMMENDED SITES ON YOUR HANDOUT

Any questions?

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